# Date: 1921-04-05

as a left wing disguised under the banner of revolution, the revolutionism it proclaims after betraying the revolution, represent demagogy aimed at deceiving the revolutionary proletariat and pursuing the goal of leading it away from the path of world revolution. At the same time, the slogans of internationalism and revolutionism are applied as means of pressure upon the bourgeoisie, so that at the cost of a new betrayal of the ideas of internationalism and revolutionism, they might be induced to "more serious" class collaboration. The struggle which the so-called left wing wages with weapons of papier-mâché pursues only one goal — the Cunfis want to take the place of the Beths and Miakitches in the next government...

The duty of the Communist Party of Hungary, the Hungarian branch of the international union of the proletariat — the Third International — consists in this: having defeated all enemies of the revolution, from Horthy to Kunfi, to achieve the victory of the ideas of communism in Hungary. This victory is not far off. The collapse of capitalism in the western countries, the waves of revolutionary class struggle that have swept Europe from Bulgaria to England, the victorious struggle of the Russian Soviet Republic are a guarantee that the proletariat of Hungary has not fought in vain during four and a half months of dictatorship...

[55] Victory will begin with the trial of the executioners and will be completed with the building of socialism. And when at the grave of the victims of terror we call to judgment all—from Béla and Kunfi8 to Horthy and Hussar9—who are responsible for the white terror and its legal crimes, then "we shall remember... and likewise cry out: 'Vae victis!'"*

What is good in the pamphlet is the firmness of the author's revolutionary convictions, his unwavering faith in revolution. Good are the remarks about the party, what kind of party it should be. Good is the criticism of social-democrats.

But the enormous deficiency is the complete absence of facts. This makes the pamphlet weak. Out of 55 pages, 40 ought to be filled with precise facts (the history of the social-democratic party and the revolution, as well as the counter-revolution in Hungary)—give a synopsis of facts and leave 15 pages for assessment.

Without such a reworking, the pamphlet is extremely weak, unsuitable for use.

1 The pamphlet by Béla Kun (Kolozsváry) "Von Revolution zu Revolution" ("From Revolution to Revolution") was published in Vienna in 1920. On the cover of the pamphlet V. I. Lenin wrote: "Lenin. See the last page"—and on the back of the last page and on the 3rd page of the cover he wrote a note in which he gave an assessment of the pamphlet (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 52, p. 41).

In Russian, the pamphlet was published in the book: Béla Kun. "On the Hungarian Soviet Republic. (Selected Articles and Speeches)." Translated from Hungarian. Moscow, 1966, pp. 278–335.

* — "Woe to the vanquished!"